The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-02-25

ther fact, admitted by Nine cassoh
maid when she was cleverly captured on
the street and removed to the office oil
the .Judpe of instruction. that Nine. Sas-
son had key to the garden and the SIDE
door of the house, and that she had been /
absent from her sisters house for two !
hours between $3.50 and 1l:3O the night
of o tob,r %.
Everything Icing thus clear, Nine
s,sson was arrested and charged with
the crime Of murder. Mime. Sasson &c
MED the accusation and told the story
as the reader has it before him, emitting
the episode of the pistol.
800 you remember going to the bureau
in the library before you left the house
October 224'' the Judge of Instruction
asked her.
'.Yes, do"
..You took a revolver out of the
bureau, and YOU haven't mentioned the
Il did; but I RETAINED from saying
ANYTHING about it because | did not WISH
10 have to say that l was afraid my nus,
hand might shoot one or the other oil
US"
.swhat did you do with the pistoli
~ nut it behind vase on the mantel'
nieco in nv husbands apartment, in
lending to remove it. but forgot It "
In consultation afterward the Judge
said to Goupe, a detective:
cribs woman does not talk nor look
Ike a rui ty per- on. If she is not guilty
and. mark YOU, she has just the sum
of money she saws she went for TO her
boudoir. and the missing watch has not
been found near her Or about her-if she
is not the assassin, how came the mur,
derer TO find the pistol hidden behind
tho vase7 You have cen the vase, and
! know iust how and where she laid 1t: Is
it possible that any one whom Nine Sas-
son left behind her did the deedi'
This suggestion put the detective on a Z
vigor. but found no clew. Nine sasson
was convicted of the killing of her nus
q nszsr Egg 1zss nc houI0Efie. nix fh6nshRE
|: alter Nine. SEASONS conviction, in the
i spring OF 1866, Detective Coupe was
T looking for wandering swindler who
= had cheated several charitable ladies in
5 the suburbs Of the city. In his wander
a ings Coupe dropped into the wineshop Of
Jean i,olma;ne, aad was coon on friendly
: terms with that gentleman; for he i'm
mcdiately identified him, deliberately
: transformed as he was, as NJ. Seasons
former valet, whom he had watched for
month, in various disguises, to see
: whether he could connect him with the
/ crime of October 2sd.
! NJ. Roumaine had splendid gold chain
on his vest, and Coupe asked him the
time. He pulled out the elegant repeater,
which Coupe had no hesitation in saving
exactly answered the description of the
watch. stolen from NJ. Sasson when he
was murdered.
"a fine watch, y said the officer.
''Yes-a present from a dead FRIEND
answered Roumaine.
An very precious, no doubt" said
inc oincer.
sad remembrance, was the reply,
win an assumed look OF sorrow.
once knew gentleman who had
"a',h JusI hke thati sa the detective,
and, strange to say, he IS dead also"
"a coincidence, said the valet.
on monsieur drink"
Thanks was the reply. at is a
strange incidence, and, would you be-
ne'e II, my ii1end was murdered. Why,
,nonsleur, what is Inc matter with you!
as your iriehd murdered alsoi"
No no, not that, monsieur, was the
ms cut your words startled me.
nurue, you see, IS such dreadful
enins' anu one never knows, IN this
Siea II, cry, VINO ne mas near him
lh'.e IS very true said the oti1cer,
III! poor itienu, iOr instance, didn't
hno". listen, II Is very strange. The
Iui{ sam that my iIiehu was murdered
" ms "iie-,nink oil tnat; but say he
was murdered 1y MS NAiet-
~ humane paie as a ghost, was staring
WIN alarmed gaze ilght at the officer /
anu ch shg WIN poth hands to the |
counter
q let us drink, said the officer, ap-
parent'y not noticing the state in which
aoumaine was. Coupe filed his glass
with brady and Roumaiue did the same.
You feel strong and refreshedi"
kei the officer. Just so; now, il YOU
please, You will put on your coat and
come along with me, Je'n Chautan, for
you're wanted for the murder of NJ.
easson:
AS coupe covered :he man with his
revolver Of the moment he uttered these
words there was no help for him.
Su etiy ana without any show of resist
ance, Roumaine went with the officer.
' when ne mad invested IN the wiIeshoP
no brots down and nus co n,, anu :; iengah